Quotes About Bertrand Meyer

OCP: The Open-Closed Principle Bertrand Meyer made this principle famous in the 1980s. The gist is that for software systems to be easy to change, they must be designed to allow the behavior of those systems to be changed by adding new code, rather than changing existing code.

The Open-Closed Principle (OCP) was coined in 1988 by Bertrand Meyer.1 It says: A software artifact should be open for extension but closed for modification.